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Please note that I have updated my original post regarding the drop rates of Celestial Essences.

The most efficient way to max out your crafting mastery level is to craft level 5 green armor. This provides a very reasonable ratio of material cost to XP gained per craft. You will need to craft thousands of pieces of armor, so put a good movie on while you do it. Keep in mind that excess crafted items will be sent to you via mail if you don't have enough space in your inventory. Considering that there isn't currently a way to collect multiple items from separate mail messages, you'll want to try to avoid having many crafted items land in your mail box.

The rough total gold cost of reaching level 50 using this method is about 5 million gold. I recommend using lesser water essences, because they are the most abundant type of essence. It's a good idea to empty your inventory before you begin. Each time you fill up your inventory with level 5 crafted armor, salvage all of it and get right back to crafting. Once you get a rhythm going, it should take about 6-8 hours to finish the job, if I recall correctly. I recommend breaking it up into 1 or 2 hour sessions.

Lol, I barely had patience to do it by L20 Rares (did it eventually), L5 green would be my worst nightmare

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I'm still using a mage to farm gold, but I'm thinking about switching to BH. The thing is every time I try to switch to BH I don't actually do the runs any faster. What do you think? Is assault faster with the right abilities and gear?

Considering that Bounty Hunter can push movement speed higher than any other class, and they have access to stealth, they are my top choice for farming gold and gemstones as well as 5 star story completion.

The best way to build a BH farmer, since you're close to 2k champion level, is to forgo ability rate and focus on auto attack damage. This means you should equip a Carnival Cape, 2 pieces of Havoc gear (Gloves and Head for the unique bonuses they provide) and 4 pieces of Assault gear for the auto attack and movement speed bonuses. Prioritize critical damage, critical rating, and haste. Every piece of gear, including jewelry, should have gold find. I find it's best to try for around 600k toughness, and about 110k recovery.

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Please note that I have updated my original post regarding the drop rates of Celestial Essences.

The most efficient way to max out your crafting mastery level is to craft level 5 green armor. This provides a very reasonable ratio of material cost to XP gained per craft. You will need to craft thousands of pieces of armor, so put a good movie on while you do it. Keep in mind that excess crafted items will be sent to you via mail if you don't have enough space in your inventory. Considering that there isn't currently a way to collect multiple items from separate mail messages, you'll want to try to avoid having many crafted items land in your mail box.

The rough total gold cost of reaching level 50 using this method is about 5 million gold. I recommend using lesser water essences, because they are the most abundant type of essence. It's a good idea to empty your inventory before you begin. Each time you fill up your inventory with level 5 crafted armor, salvage all of it and get right back to crafting. Once you get a rhythm going, it should take about 6-8 hours to finish the job, if I recall correctly. I recommend breaking it up into 1 or 2 hour sessions.

It will give you 9-10 XP per craft, and it cost 1 lesser essence per craft. The higher the level/rarity, the more essences, gold and base materials per XP you will have to spend, but the faster you will level up. Level 5 is the highest you can go before 2 lesser essences are required. Level 14 is the highest you can go before 3 are required. I can't verify the XP gains for crafting any longer, because my crafting is already maxed out, but you can check it out in-game, and find a level/rarity which works for you, if you don't mind spending more materials and gold per XP.

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Was this from discord? I can't find it in any of the release notes here. I'm sure it's in here somewhere, I just haven't found it...

I don't know if it has been announced yet. I discovered the change on my own. I first noticed it when I opened a Celestial Cube to create an Integralas Mantle. I then went into the crafting menu, and queued up an Integralas Mantle. I didn't actually craft the mantle; Instead, I viewed the result preview. Each time you select a different stat on the crafting page, the unique item bonus values would be re-rolled in the result preview. Go ahead and give it a try. Keep in mind, the results preview and the actual results will not be the same if you decide to actually craft the item.

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I don't know if it has been announced yet. I discovered the change on my own. I first noticed it when I opened a Celestial Cube to create an Integralas Mantle. I then went into the crafting menu, and queued up an Integralas Mantle. I didn't actually craft the mantle; Instead, I viewed the result preview. Each time you select a different stat on the crafting page, the unique item bonus values would be re-rolled in the result preview. Go ahead and give it a try. Keep in mind, the results preview and the actual results will not be the same if you decide to actually craft the item.

Yup, I tried doing this on some previous ANB. Waited, a long time, for the preview to show max values, clicked on craft but a different result came out. So IM was still gambled RNG for CBoxes let alone crafted ones. Won't be crafting one anytime soon.

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Any way you can think to obtain an Integralas Mantle will yield the new version with 20% max.

That explains why I haven't been able to get anything better than 20%. The best I could do was an L72 with 20% at 95AR.
I have 2 L70s with 25-30% at or above 95AR which I got or made before 1.4.11. Guess I'll be hanging on to those for a while.

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